Fran Lebowitz. I enjoyed the series that Martin Scorsese has done on her entertaining chitter-chatter. Then I decided to search for more and discovered this video that I'd like to share. An interview to her about the American photographer Peter Hujar who she was a close friend with. Not so much of her witty moaning here, but I love how the story of Peter, his creative soul and tragic ending, unfolds in Lebowitz's answers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8sXLKmjMM&feature=emb_title
Selling some mounted prints from “Windows to London” and “Wide Tube” projects in Pizza Express Kings Road 152, SW3 4UT at a special price, come to visit!
10% of the sale goes to McMillan Cancer Support.
The arts and media group Binomic.cat turned the small village of Penelles in an international tourist attraction. Since 2016, this Catalan town celebrates the GAR GAR festival of urban arts. Penelles, land of fruits and wine yards, has no more than 500 inhabitants; but gets pretty crowded once a year with mural artists and visitors of all over the world. They spray the streets with hustle and bustle and leave behind a splash of colour for us to go and see ;-)
Artangel.org.uk brings extraordinary art to unexpected places. I had the privilege to find out about them and enjoy their “Inside Reading Prison” some days ago. Those above are some photos I took there and I definitely encourage you to go and get inspired before it all vanishes away by the end of this month.
Reading prison was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Known as the leading architect of the gothic revival. He created some celebrated constructions like St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel among many others.
In 1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol, like the institution was called at the time, sentenced two years after committing “acts of gross indecency with other male persons”.
The memory of Wilde’s reclusion and the letter “De Profundis” he wrote while in his enclosement are the starting points for this astonishing exhibit. Artists and writers like Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Roni Horn, Marlene Dumas, Ai Wei Wei and many others have worked together to bring projects around reflexion, solitude, separation, suffering, desire, memory, and more to the cells and corridors of the obscure and colourful enchanted building.
https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/inside/
From this Thursday 7th until the 17th of July some prints from my series ‘Windows to London’ will be on show at the Streatham’s Art Trail. Look out for the Art23 Trail that will take place all over SW16 and enjoy some arts from locals and more.
You will find my prints at Deli Lama, 241 Streatham High Road.
Documenting performance; Staging/Collaboration; Photographic Actions; Performing Icons; Public Relations; Self Portrait and Performing Real Life. Those are all subjects around the large selection of images to see now at the Tate Modern’s temporary exhibition called Performing for the Camera. This is on-going and up until the 12th June 2016. If you are into photography you will enjoy seeing a great selection of interesting projects, together with the work of already well-known figures like Martin Parr, Francesca Woodman, Lee Friedlander, Man Ray, or Cindy Sherman. There are even couple of very personal series by Masahisa Fukase who I was recommending in the previous post.
In addition to viewing remarkable work by artists with mastermind and sense of humour, I did appreciate finding about two photographers I didn’t know about: Harry Shunk and János Kender. Together, they were documenting brilliantly the art scene in Paris and New York from 1958 to 1973. And finally, I enjoyed especially the standing out red-ish room. It shows some of the collaborative work of the photographer Eikoh Hosoe and the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, for the photobook Kamaitachi 1969. So fascinating!
More than as a review take this as a recommendation. See below the link of Tate about the show and also a video I found in Youtube where Eikoh Hosoe presents some of his photographs.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/performing-camera
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Well then! First post of this blog!
I’d like to share with you the small but worth seeing show there is in the Michael Hoppen gallery at the moment. It finishes on the 23th of April/16, so that’s not much time left. Hoppen managed to show in London for the first time some prints from Masahisa Fukase’s work: The Solitude of Ravens. If you know the book and the story behind, you understand how proud they may feel. If you don’t you are lucky because you are about to discover something transcendent. I give you some links that will help with your flight.
- An article on The Guardian by Sean O'Hagan about M Fukase's work.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/may/24/masahisa-fukase-ravens-photobook
- A youtube video by Esther't Hart and Wiek Roggeveen showing the book The Solitude of Ravens with music by Portishead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4FhAljFnE
- A link to Michael Hoppen Gallery site with info about the show.
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibitions/127/overview/
